Environmental News in South America

Juliet Pinto is Associate Professor of Journalism and Broadcasting in the School of Communication and Journalism at Florida International University, USA.Paola Prado is Associate Professor of Journalism and Digital Media in the Communication Department at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA.Alejandro Tirado is Researcher at the Latino Policy Institute and Instructor at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA.

• 1. Introduction: Extraction, National Development and Environmental News in 21st Century South America.- 2. News, Conflict and Environment as Social Constructions.- 3. Ecuador and the Chevron Case: Spinning Risk, Hazard and Reward.- 4. Brazil and the Belo Monte Dam Conflict: “The Amazon is Ours”.- 5. Chile's Pascua Lama: Where Water is Worth More than Gold.- 6. Mediated Neo-extractivism and National Development.-